– Teachers will participate in solving challenging problems using manipulatives and group collaboration. Each is followed by a discussion about that experience – how did it feel What is the advantage of this approach? The difficulties?
– “Find 3 Ways” – Practice seeing number bonds visually, showing 3 alternative strategies for a given calculation, and discussing how to apply this to the teachers’ own classroom.
– Games. How to use manipulative-based, strategy-building games to practice content.

– How to plan a long, incremental unit of study, which might take weeks/months in a concept-based classroom, and be sandwiched around other units that take less time.
– How to choose the most vital content for these long units.
– Enrichment, depth and challenge – how to meet the needs of fast-paced learners.
– How to give struggling students the time they need to gain mastery of essential concepts.
– Word problems and model drawing practice.

– Formative and continuous. How to check for learning as the unit progresses.
– How to avoid tracking by “Leveling” assessment within a heterogeneous classroom.